InDesign Workbook Layout Designer (3-Week Project, Immediate Start)

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: TYPE OF WORK

Gig

: SALARY

TBC

: HOURS PER WEEK

30

: DATE UPDATED

Mar 18, 2026

JOB OVERVIEW

The opportunity

We're an education company based in Australia that creates practical learning kits for young entrepreneurs. Our products include card decks, handbooks, workbooks, and online courses sold globally.

We need an experienced InDesign designer to lay out a series of print-ready workbooks across our product range. The content is written. The InDesign templates are purchased. We need someone who can bring the two together quickly and professionally.

This is a focused 3-week engagement starting immediately, with the potential for ongoing work as we release new products throughout the year.

What you'll be doing

Taking fully written workbook content (provided as Word documents with clear structure) and laying it out in InDesign using pre-purchased templates. Each workbook contains exercises with writable fields, tables, reflection prompts, and planning spaces designed for the reader to fill in by hand.

Specifically:

- Laying out 4-5 workbooks (ranging from 75 to 100 exercises each, approximately ---------- pages per book)
- Adapting InDesign templates to match our existing visual identity (bold, energetic, yellow and black palette)
- Setting up consistent page templates for different exercise types (tables, write-in fields, grids, reflection pages)
- Creating phase divider pages and section openers
- Ensuring all content is print-ready for our print-on-demand supplier (correct bleed, margins, trim, and export settings)
- Exporting final PDFs to print-on-demand specifications

What we provide

- Complete written content for each workbook (structured Word documents with every exercise, heading, and instruction)
- InDesign templates as your starting point
- Our existing visual identity and brand guidelines (colour palette, typography direction, examples of our published handbook)
- Clear feedback and direction throughout the project
- A collaborative working relationship with fast turnaround on approvals

Skills required

- Strong proficiency in Adobe InDesign (this is 95% of the job)
- Experience laying out books, workbooks, educational materials, or course content for print
- Understanding of print-on-demand specifications (bleed, safe zones, spine calculations, PDF/X export)
- Clean, readable typography and layout instincts
- Ability to create and modify master pages, paragraph styles, and character styles efficiently
- Comfortable working from Word documents and adapting content to designed layouts
- Good communication in English
- Available to start within the next few days

Nice to have

- Experience with Bookvault, IngramSpark, KDP, or similar print-on-demand platforms
- Basic Figma literacy (our card designs live in Figma, though this role is InDesign-focused)

Working arrangement

- 3-week project, starting as soon as possible
- Estimated 20-30 hours per week depending on pace
- We work on Australian Eastern time (AEST/AEDT) but are flexible on hours as long as communication is responsive during overlapping windows
- All work delivered via shared cloud folder (Google Drive)
- Regular check-ins via chat or video call

How to apply

Please include:

1. Your portfolio or samples showing book/workbook/educational layout work in InDesign (this is the most important thing)
2. A brief note on your experience with print-ready production and any print-on-demand platforms you've worked with
3. Your availability over the next 3 weeks and your hourly or project rate
4. How soon you could start

We're looking for someone who takes pride in clean, professional layout work and can move quickly with clear direction. If you've laid out educational content, workbooks, or course materials before, you're exactly who we're looking for.

SKILL REQUIREMENT

Indesign Figma

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InDesign Workbook Layout Designer (3-Week Project, Immediate Start)

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